Watersheds

What is a Watershed?
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watershed.html
Choose Your Watershed
http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/watermgt/WC/Subjects/WSNoteBks/shedtable.htm
Science in Your Watershed
http://water.usgs.gov/wsc/

Locate Your Watershed - Map
http://water.usgs.gov/wsc/map_index.html

Know Your Watershed
http://www2.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/Brochures/GetToKnow.html
Surf Your Watershed
http://www.epa.gov/surf/
Click on our area and check out the stream flow statistics - good for math too!
*The Watershed Game
http://www.bellmuseum.org/distancelearning/watershed/watershed2.html
The Water Cycle
Interactive Water Cycle
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html
young, but good illustration
The Hydrologic Cycle (Canada)
http://www.ec.gc.ca/water/en/nature/grdwtr/e_cycle.htm
General Water Sites
[[http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/mearth.html|*USGS Water Science for Schools
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/mearth.html]]
*The Groundwater Foundation - Kid's Corner (has all the basics, plus activities, mazes, etc.)
http://www.groundwater.org/kc/kc.html
Clean Water: Life Depends on it! (from Canada)
http://www.ec.gc.ca/water/en/info/pubs/FS/e_FSA3.htm

In our Library:
Videos -
Water: To the Last Drop
The Power of Water
Books -
363.6 Turn on the Faucet
333.91 Saving Water
363.6 The Water Crisis
363.73 Rivers and Lakes (The Endangered Planet)
551.47 River in the Ocean (Story of the Gulf Stream)
551.46 Seas and Oceans
551.48 Rivers and Lakes
551 The Planet Earth
550.3 The Visual Dictionary of the Earth
Guided Reading -
Level T 551.48 - The Water Cycle
Level T 551 - The Water Cycle Earth Explorations
Level L/M 333 - The Future: Bleak or Bright?
Level L/M 551 - The Life and Times of a Drop of Water
Level S/T 551 - Wonders of Water